bread-and-butterishadj.

Brit.

/ˌbrɛd(ə)n(d)ˈbʌt(ə)rɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˌbrɛdənˈbədərɪʃ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bread and butter n., -ish suffix¹.

Etymology: < bread and butter n. + -ish suffix¹.

1. Girlish, schoolgirlish; (sometimes more generally) childish; used depreciatively, with implication of naive or unsophisticated character. Cf. bread and butter adj. 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1840 Amer. Misc. 2 174/2 Who ever heard—except from a poet in his bread and butterish first utterings—of redolent smiles?

1893 Glasgow Herald 6 Apr. 4/4 Her sister..is a bread-and-butterish flirt.

1939 Stage 24 Aug. 10/3 Peggy Ashcroft's Cecily is most artfully and charmingly bread-and-butterish.

2. Mundane, humdrum, routine, ordinary; = bread and butter adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace

commona1382

ordinarc1400

plainc1430

famosec1449

famous1528

vulgar1580

ordinary1590

undistinguished1600

indistinguished1608

commonplace1616

unremarkable1628

irremarkable1635

bread and cheese1643

incurious1747

ordinary-looking1798

routine1826

indistinctive1846

common-seeming1857

bread-and-butterish1893

bread-and-buttery1893

timeworn1901

day-to-day1919

vanilla1972

standard1977

1893 Southend Standard 21 Sept. 8/4 Both materials [sc. chalk and lime] are..things of everyday acquaintance, with a decidedly bread-and-butterish interest.

1927 C. Aiken in Dial Dec. 513 By comparison with him [sc. Chekhov], Gissing seems prosy, bread-and-butterish. But he is good.

1985 P. Roazen Helene Deutsch (1992) 100 Part of Helene's lack of enthusiasm for the role her female colleagues would have thrust upon her was that the issue as they had drawn it up was too bread-and-butterish.

1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 2 Aug. 15 You can argue that Donald is too cautious, too bread-and-butterish when excitable folk looked for a hundred days of great revolutionary exhilaration.

Derivatives

† bread-and-butterishness n. Obsolete rare the state or quality of being girlish (or occasionally boyish); naivety; lack of sophistication. Cf. sense bread and butter adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun] > quality of

childhoodlOE

childheada1325

childishness1526

childlikeness1744

bread-and-butterishness1843

childlinessa1846

1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 80 They..emerge..into the full and perfect imago of little..gentlemen, and little ladies, without any of those intermediate conditions of laddism, hobble-de-hoyism, or bread-and-butterishness.

1878 Canad. Spectator 2 Feb. 44/1 Brought up in a ‘seminary for young ladies’, she seems never to have shaken off the bread-and-butterishness.

1903 Defiance (Ohio) Evening Express 30 Nov. The independent, strident-voiced person..is being replaced by what we may call the old-fashioned girl, freed, however, from the silliness and affectation and bread-and-butterishness of her predecessor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bread-and-butterish
释义	bread-and-butterishadj. Brit. /ˌbrɛd(ə)n(d)ˈbʌt(ə)rɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌbrɛdənˈbədərɪʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bread and butter n., -ish suffix¹. Etymology: < bread and butter n. + -ish suffix¹. 1. Girlish, schoolgirlish; (sometimes more generally) childish; used depreciatively, with implication of naive or unsophisticated character. Cf. bread and butter adj. 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1840 Amer. Misc. 2 174/2 Who ever heard—except from a poet in his bread and butterish first utterings—of redolent smiles? 1893 Glasgow Herald 6 Apr. 4/4 Her sister..is a bread-and-butterish flirt. 1939 Stage 24 Aug. 10/3 Peggy Ashcroft's Cecily is most artfully and charmingly bread-and-butterish. 2. Mundane, humdrum, routine, ordinary; = bread and butter adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace commona1382 ordinarc1400 plainc1430 famosec1449 famous1528 vulgar1580 ordinary1590 undistinguished1600 indistinguished1608 commonplace1616 unremarkable1628 irremarkable1635 bread and cheese1643 incurious1747 ordinary-looking1798 routine1826 indistinctive1846 common-seeming1857 bread-and-butterish1893 bread-and-buttery1893 timeworn1901 day-to-day1919 vanilla1972 standard1977 1893 Southend Standard 21 Sept. 8/4 Both materials [sc. chalk and lime] are..things of everyday acquaintance, with a decidedly bread-and-butterish interest. 1927 C. Aiken in Dial Dec. 513 By comparison with him [sc. Chekhov], Gissing seems prosy, bread-and-butterish. But he is good. 1985 P. Roazen Helene Deutsch (1992) 100 Part of Helene's lack of enthusiasm for the role her female colleagues would have thrust upon her was that the issue as they had drawn it up was too bread-and-butterish. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 2 Aug. 15 You can argue that Donald is too cautious, too bread-and-butterish when excitable folk looked for a hundred days of great revolutionary exhilaration. Derivatives † bread-and-butterishness n. Obsolete rare the state or quality of being girlish (or occasionally boyish); naivety; lack of sophistication. Cf. sense bread and butter adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > quality of childhoodlOE childheada1325 childishness1526 childlikeness1744 bread-and-butterishness1843 childlinessa1846 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 80 They..emerge..into the full and perfect imago of little..gentlemen, and little ladies, without any of those intermediate conditions of laddism, hobble-de-hoyism, or bread-and-butterishness. 1878 Canad. Spectator 2 Feb. 44/1 Brought up in a ‘seminary for young ladies’, she seems never to have shaken off the bread-and-butterishness. 1903 Defiance (Ohio) Evening Express 30 Nov. The independent, strident-voiced person..is being replaced by what we may call the old-fashioned girl, freed, however, from the silliness and affectation and bread-and-butterishness of her predecessor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1840
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